Finding the factors of the big numbers used by the RSA -2048 algorithm, for example, often used as a benchmark for progress in the field, has eluded generations of classical computers.

Breaching the RSA-2048 algorithm requires, similar to other algorithms in the RSA numbers family, finding the prime factors of a number with 617 decimal digits and 2048 binary digits.

Dwave Systems should have a 2048 qubit chip sometime in 2014 for running Google image classifier and Lockheed Martin bug free software proving algorithm ...